The Democratic National Convention has been okay so far. I'm yet to throw my hands in the air and scream "Hallelujah!" I haven't heard anything that's really going to stick. There's yet to be a real quote issued, other than what Al Sharpton said about riding the donkey, and that probably offended more fence-riding conservatives than anything.
It seems most speeches start off with ten minutes focusing on how great so-and-so's wife and kids are, then they go into a psuedo-psychic mode where they start rambling with the usual, "things are gonna change I can feel it..."
Why not tell it like it is? Think about Bush's only strength in the world: His ability to appear common. Why not harness this simple Bush formula and move from point to point -- in layman's terms -- about how you can do better than the incumbent?
Instead of some flowery, fruity stuff about "I dream of a better tomorrow in which America embraces yadda, yadda, yadda..." why not say it like a smarter Bush? Throw out a couple of well-placed semi-curses ("damn" and "hell" come to mind) and rally the troops like a football coach -- instead of a plastic corpse.
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times said this in her editorial today, "Some Democrats fear that Mr. Kerry could be falling into a Republican trap, so worried about offending swing voters that he misses the knockout swing."
In a previous graph, she wrote, "(Dick Cheney, meanwhile, was as offensive as ever, mocking the unfortunate picture of Mr. Kerry in his embryonic spacesuit.)"
If the Dems want to go toe to toe, they've got the Republicans beat on Bush's lame record alone. Give Dick a taste of his own dirty medicine: whenever he says anything, scream, "Halliburton Enron!" If he talks about fighting terrorism, talk about $87 billion dollar aid packages for the next 10 years so that Iraq can go back to being the same non-threat it was before.
The arguments are easy, the passion is lacking. Forget the pundits, get angry and let the truth ring loud!
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